Stylus RIP

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://stylusmagazine.com/ - Stylus Zine is ending after 5 years. I'll miss its Singles Jukebox feature, which I also wrote for (too) occasionally. Did anyone read it?

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[cis.livejournal.com]

I read it sometimes - it had too many lists for my liking, and there was this odd period where they had some female writer whose entire point seemed to be 'i am a girl and i like music that boys like isn't that so weirdddddd', but every so often you'd get some really interesting stuff in there - like Southall's stuff on sound, and Swygart's chart rundowns and pop articles (the 'something changed' bit in his 'top ten no.10 singles' article is one of my favourite pieces of writing, i think? it's certainly something that really affected me.), and maybe even some of the American writers on whatever it was they were into (i seem to remember todd burns writing something really interesting on the stypod once? and Ian Mathers on, like, totally twee indie or sth, a style that fit the records perfectly while not making me want to buy them at all). It had some surprisingly good dance reviews! But I could never work out who the readership were who didn't occasionally write for it -- I suppose if they'd commented more we'd know about them, but whenever they did, on the jukebox at least, they were so annoying.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

if Will reads this he should consider this official encouragement to carry on jukeboxing elsewhere...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

seconded.